Eric Rizen Lynch

Jayhawk blues

I promise this post will have something to do with poker. In yesterday's post, I mentioned that I was going to take last night off so I could watch the KU game (we won't talk about that), spend some time with my family, and get some sleep. Well, Shauna (my wife for those of you that don't know) had a final in school last night and called to tell me it would be running later than she thought. This left me at home with the baby sleeping for a good amount of time, so I couldn't help but fire up the tables. I decided to make tonight my 'night off' and play last night.

I played in 6 tournaments last night with no cashes. I wasn't really upset with the way I played because minus a few small mistakes (bet sizes, and a continuation bet I felt was horrible) I played pretty well. I went out of the UB 100+9 pretty early when my flopped overpair ran into TP/TK and the river hit his Ace. I'll spare you all the bad beat stories (you know how I feel about those) but that was pretty much my tournament night. I bubbled in 2 tournaments, in one of those 20 paid and I went out 21st. Again though, I felt my play was fine so I wasn't too upset with myself, and since I busted early I was able to get a good night's sleep.

Since I busted out of most of my tournaments pretty quickly I was left in the Empire Happy Hour (the one I finished 21st in). I was at a VERY tough table with some of my poker friends: Soupie, scgolfer, and WebGuySteve. Some of the other players weren't too bad either, so I knew making the FT was going to be extremely hard. When the Happy Hour gets 100+ people though it goes hand for hand at 30 and doesn't stop until the final table. This can make this tournament VERY boring until you get down to 10, so I fired up two 15/30 cash tables on Party while I waited.

Well, I was catching REALLY well in my cash games for about the 90 minutes I played and just crushed them. At the end of the night, despite not cashing in any of the 6 tournaments, and 4 of the 6 having a $100 or greater buy in, I was a fair amount in the black for the night. I used to play almost exclusively cash games until I switched to more focus on MTTs about 4 months ago, so it's sometimes nice to get back to my bread and butter. Overall December has been a decent month so far. I've made 2 final tables (both last Saturday) and have a good run in my cash games for a decent profit so far.

-Rizen